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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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